"Apparently, by the time a man is forty there are only two or three men he can describe as close friends." The Match by David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social #shortstory #TenYears #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/06/28/t...

See these chairs? Aren't they amazing?These chairs are in the Ukrainian club in Rochdale and on 9 July 2026 you could be sitting on one of these chairs watching top flight authors reading specially commissioned new short stories on the theme of Rochdale. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roch-tales...

Hi all Be great if you can come to this event in the coolest venue in Greater Manchester - the Ukrainian Club in Rochdale www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roch-tales... Please share everywhere!

My next scheduled event is just under five weeks away; head to the link for full details! Really looking forward to chatting about creating and craft with @ggaffa.bsky.social @nblascsok.bsky.social Jazmine Linklater and Tom Branfoot in this one-off! www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/sarah-...

Look at this modernist gem. Smallbridge Library Rochdale. There’s a free short story workshop there in May - alongside six other workshops in six other libraries on Rochdale - you can book your places here www.eventbrite.com/cc/roch-tale... @rochdalelibrary @culturecoopuk @rochdale.creates

A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities. The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery. bsky.app/profile/robm...

Writers - check out these free workshops in Rochdale... www.eventbrite.com/cc/roch-tale... Please circulate.,..

Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch

the free tickets for this are going fast….

Trying to get back out there a bit more in 2026. Looking forward to this event at the end of next month. I read Lakes of Titan by David Gaffney in December and loved it. Hope to meet some people there! @ggaffa.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abovegroun...

Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...

Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...

Copies available here! david-gaffney.sumupstore.com

What a great piece of work by David Gaffney inspired by a long train journey and the hours before and after it. How many different minutes can you fit into an hour? I would really recommend getting this. And long live the Chuckle Brothers.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Out now! Lakes of Titan is a short pamphlet by me published by Above/Ground press You can order now at the knock down price of 5.00 david-gaffney.sumupstore.com/product/lake... the everyday hallucinatory, fuelled by the powerful narcotics of disorientation, hypervigilance and fatigue. Tom Jenks

If you’re in Manchester tomorrow (Saturday, 4pm), it would be dead good to see you at the 50th Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – 50th, blimey! Amazing readers: Frances Presley, Jeremy Over and David Gaffney. Oh, and *cough* me. Free as well and the venue is ace – bring your headtorch and your pocket money.

🎥 📚 🕖 Tonight at book/record shop & public drinking rooms Ad England Impiety Hour (aka Peste), it’s the launch of essay collection The Carbon Arc, with four readers – David Gaffney, Nicholas Royle, Anne Worthington & David Savill – plus film clips, introduced by editor Richard Skinner. Free entry.

If you are in Manchester tonight this will be fantastic! Introduced and published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social readings by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & David Savill, at 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒓 AKA "O! Peste Destroyed"/ "Annihilation Eve"

The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester November 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...

@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥

Come to @smallpublishers.bsky.social today.

Nightjar publisher @nicholasroyle.bsky.social in conversation with Ma Bibliothèque publisher Sharon Kivland @smallpublishers.bsky.social photo by @emmabolland.bsky.social

A new story by David Gaffney is always something to celebrate. Flight Paths, published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social‬, is one of his most intriguing – tautly edgy, deftly organised. nightjarpress.weebly.com/flight-paths.html

I'm off to watch Carlisle play Altrincham this afternoon -come on the blues! I hope they are good in rain - coming from cumbria they're probably well used to it.... m.youtube.com/watch?v=uURN...

If your neighbourhood is infested with flags on lampposts, email your councillor and request that they be taken down. In some areas, they have done so; the more people who contact them, the better. Alternatively, organise a small group, get a ladder and some cable tie cutters, and do it yourselves.

My instagram has become videos only! I’ve looked at settings but cant seem to change it - anyone else had this or know how to fix it?

I am on the crossing where Jean-Paul Belmondo dies after being shot in A Bout De Souffle by Jean Luc Godard - this appears in my essay on film locations in the new anthology The Carbon Arc - available now! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...

I loved @ggaffa.bsky.social's previous @nightjarpress.bsky.social story, and this is as good if not better. A flight path signals something much deeper in the narrator's life, darker and more unsettling nightjarpress.weebly.com

I am teaching on this online short story course for Arvon in October - be great to see some of you there A few places are concession spots, available at a 30% discount for low-waged writers or those receiving certain benefits. Here's the link to the week: www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Can't wait to read @anne-worthington.bsky.social, @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @richardnskinner.bsky.social Maria Fusco et al. on Cinema! richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car... 🔥🔥🔥

Wanna watch me read a David Gaffney story that I illustrated and wrote music for?

I have a short piece in this journal which looks great - from my forthcoming collection Lakes of Titan theberlinliteraryreview.com/august-2025/

I have a new story out on Nightjar press called Flight Paths. Get one here for only £3.00. I suggest buying mine along with Joe Stretch ‘s as they were both commissioned for Stockport Stories, and complement each other like an earthy wine with a ripe brie. nightjarpress.weebly.com?fbclid=IwQ0x...

I have a new story out on Nightjar! Its called Flight Paths and its a ghostly tale of aeroplanes and romance fraud...you can use the link below to buy one for £3

Just visited Gibberd house and garden in Harlow - Gibberd designed Harlow new town and Liverpool Catholic Cathedral - well worth a look

“In another sky my father was a security guard for a thermometer factory while studying for a Phd in Hauntology. Turn it upside down they would call to him across the floor, then shake it. Did your father become a practicing hauntologist? Sadly, he did not, despite it being his dream.”

Catch @ggaffa.bsky.social and also @nightjarpress.bsky.social editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social (oh, and me) reading at Je ne sais Blah ll this Thursday evening at Cafe Blah, Withington Village, doors 7pm, free entry.

I have some new short pieces published here - thanks to the wonderful people at Piccioletta Barca for selecting them. These are from my forthcoming collection Lakes Of Titan www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-trip Here some sections read live tonight at Café Blah in Withington

What's happened to #nighttracks @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social it used to be experimental and interesting - but now? What? Garden centre relaxation music? Radio 3 can be risk taking! No need for this...

Day made! New Nightjars have arrived: by @rlsummerling.bsky.social, @bookishleels.bsky.social, @ggaffa.bsky.social and Joe Stretch @nightjarpress.bsky.social #shortstories

Excited about my new short story out soon on Nightjar!

Not yet on the website, but going out to subscribers.

Flash fiction writers - I am running a workshop in Frodsham Cheshire and places are going fast they tell me so if you live in Frodsham or Cheshire or just fancy a day out in the hometown of Gary Barlow and Spit the Dog then book your place now! www.weaverwords.org.uk/flash-fictio...

TOMORROW! This time tomorrow, the nerves will be kicking in... An evening of readings at Saul Hay Gallery to celebrate the launch of Wanderland, with Scott Thurston & Lydia Unsworth – expect delicious writing morsels, tasty kinepoetics and some tempting Oulipian collaboration.

🪶📚🚀THIS THURSDAY! I'd love it if you'd pop along and welcome Wanderland worldwards! It's the official launch of my new book, 7pm at Saul Hay Gallery, free entry, and joining the party to help me celebrate are guest readers Scott Thurston and Lydia Unsworth. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

“Wanderland is full of gorgeous observational poems about nature that are lovely to read and greatly skilled” ~ Will Mackie “Stylishly crafted, attentive and attuned to the surprises of the world around us” ~ Jennifer Lee Tsai “Beautiful poems of treasure and nature and light” ~ Rachel Bower

This Saturday night on Record Store Day its Sleeve Note with live new writing and new music at the Anthony Burgess centre Manchester. We were sold out but we now have 5 extra tickets do get them while they are hot! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...

Its exactly 4 weeks on saturday to our Record Store Day gig Sleeve Notes Ten writers have teamed up with ten musicians to create brand-new tracks combining spoken word and music. Saturday 12 April Burgess Centre www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sleeve-not...